'Ello there. I try to limit myself on the pointless #askhubski questions, but consider me curious: where does your hubski username come from?
Mine is simple. Eight-Bit because I love me some vidjagaems, and Samurai because it's very close to my regular old name.
Now, while I wait for you to answer, I'll be watching the Bachelor. This is what taking a sick day does to me.
I identify strongly with the character.
From *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T S Eliot And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
[They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!"]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
[They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!"]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
----- So how should I presume?
As a kid I read a lot about dinosaurs and was fascinated by the story of the discovery of the iguanodon, which in the book I got from my parents, was a less complete version of the story told here. I would sometimes wonder how extraterrestrial xeno-archaeologists might view human remains and how they might be inclined to assemble the fossilized jumbles that they might find and what kind of permutations they might go through before finding enough remains to conclude that humans are/were bipedal. I think I fixated on iguanodon because it had a pair of thumb spikes, which makes it look like it's giving "two thumbs up" which is a gesture I use often. Of course, I hadn't considered that any intelligent alien species that might find human remains would likely be a very highly advanced civilization, perhaps with capabilities of reconstruction far beyond those of the time I live in, but you know . . . kids. I also happen to love neologisms and random word associations, so when it came time to create a new username, I let my brain take a walk and when it came back, "humanodon" was staring back at me from the username field.
I have been surprised by the lack of username "land grab" here.
I first went online in August of 1992, as a college frosh. I quickly came to enjoy Bitnet Relay (a precursor to IRC), but I could never get my own name as a handle. Some guy named Kevin was already calling himself Dante. I started playing with different handles. Then one day I was thinking about the annoying part of being born with the name Dante: everyone wants to make the Inferno joke. It became a litmus: every new person that made this joke was likely to be boring. Then again it left me to think about the Devil versus Lucifer versus Satan, especially after reading the Book of Job. Macbeth has a character in act V named Seyton, which caught my ear. I decided to go as Shavian as I could with it: I was taking Ancient Greek back in spring of 1994, so I've had this handle for two decades. I'm still annoyed that my usual server and employee login isn't available on Gmail. -sound it out
This worked really well online, because no one ever had a handle that started with 'Ps'. It also suited my idea for the opposite of a traditional graffiti tag -- a clearly written "Pseydtonne hwuz heare." that has to be read aloud to be meaningful. Satan;
Seyton, as previous established;
Pseyton -- Ps, as in the Greek letter psi;
Pseydton, as in the 'dt' at the end of German words;
Pseydtonne -- make it female in French.
Oh man, I know that pain. My name is Rico and that Gerardo song happened to come out when I was 5. It still darkens my day when some hokey person (who is usually white) I've just met starts singing that song. "SwAH-Vay" Grrrr.Then one day I was thinking about the annoying part of being born with the name Dante: everyone wants to make the Inferno joke.
"hello tomorrow" in French. I find it kind of poetic, and it's symbolic for me anyway. Reminds me to always keep looking forward. I started this username as a way to recreate myself, I had one that I had been using for the months prior to this one that had stopped being "me" I guess.
It's a short mash up of my full name. Didn't mean it to be so godly, the arrogance of my user name didn't hit me until after I registered. I've used a number of name mash ups on the internet, enough that I don't even think about it when I make a new one. I thought about changing it but said ah well.
Huh. I've just assumed you were a C programmer (like myself) - with a typical programmer's ego. My tag is just my name/middle initial/name. Not very creative, I suppose.
Long ago (on the ancient Sierra Network, actually) I used the handle CGator, because I used C and (at that time) worked for Seagate. Another handle I've used once or twice is Okiwi - a portmanteau of Okie and Kiwi.
Genetically speaking, we are all apes. However, clearly there is much evolutionary behavioural divergence between humans and the other apes. This behavioural divergence is connected to our expanded neocortex, which makes us "advanced" apes. Where will this neocortex take us? That's what I like to think about.
Man, you guys should've met me in my extremely heavy Lord of the Rings phase, back when I went by, variously: - Tinuvel (bastardization of Tinuviel or Lethian Tinuviel, from The Lay of Lethian ) - varnelockse (means "brown hair" in elvish) - Narasir (means something about fire in elvish) Now I am just in a reasonably-moderate Lord of the Rings phase, as should be constant through my life ;)
It is the name of my band: http://www.last.fm/music/The+New+Green/Elaborate+Maps and my actual name was taken by he who shan't be named.
Thanks for that reminder, steve I think I may have misspelled his name in my email to you about the podcast. Can you correct? Thanks pal! Keibler, thanks again for your participation. I hope things are going well for project digital privacy.
My name sounds an awful lot like Caviar Sombrero. And a relative joked with me and called me Fish-Egg Hat
I needed a new username -- what I'd had previously suited me fine, but I felt like needing to reinvent myself in a place which didn't have very many usernames anyways, and would suit my personality more (as this site is a very personal, opinionated, passionate, thoughtful place). I am reserved, used to be quite shy, see myself as an introvert, but contrary to the Google 'define demure' definition of the word, I'm a guy. Hence: demure. Elsewhere it's started to be demur_e as people take the word itself more often than I expected.
Layziethekid - Layzie The Kid is from the song Ghetto Cowboy where the rapper, Layzie Bone (From rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) names his character in the song Layzie The Kid after Billy the Kid in the western style of the song.
Oh and my username was first used in the game Counter-Strike, a first person shooter Counter-Terriost game. The Billy the Kid style of name in a first person shooter was pretty fitting.
Liked A Clockwork Orange quite a bit as a teen and 6655321 is Alex's prisoner number (in the book, they abbreviate it for the movie), tacked onto my middle name.
That's awesome. I often wonder about people that have random numbers in their names.
Robert = Bob = Blob (my very inebriated persona).
Castillo is Spanish for "castle." Hence, BLOB_CASTLE. It's capitalized because when I typed it in, I didn't realize caps lock was on. In hindsight though, I'm glad it was.
My name is Jēkabs and Ješka is a nickname for Jēkabs (although not one that I use for myself). Unfortunately, Jeska and Jeshka are already taken on many websites. After experimenting for a while I at first used Jeshka_ (which is my handle on last.fm and possibly some others), then switched to Jeshk0, which I'm slowly spreading across any websites that I may frequent. Thankfully it's uncommon enough that I've not run into any problems. So if you ever find a Jeshk0 on another website, chances are it's me.
Eh, mine is not that interesting. Another reddit refugee here; basically referencing my refusal to do anything but lurk there anymore.
When I first had to pick out names for sites I always wanted Raven, however that was always taken. Since then they have always revolved around the phonetic spelling Raivyn. I wanted a slight change but something still raven-y. Corvix is based off corvide/corvus, which is the family name that includes crows, jays, and of course ravens.
I'm not kidding when I say that it goes back 85 years. Obviously, the word has been around for some time and very similar to Deuce, as in the number 2. The reason it goes back 85 years in my family is due to my grandfather being ~3 years old and trying to say his last name and saying "daduce"(phonetically Dah-doos, like deduce). He would then be referred to as Da Duce, which then was shortened to Duce. It gets really awkward when my grand, dad. and brothers, and I are together and someone shouts out Duce! and we all look.
Many years ago I was in a terrible band with a few friends and one of the members was in a constant state of disarray over one girl or another. He really liked the band Every Time I Die and played this song for me once while we were driving around. I waged a perpetual war of giving him shit for his (what I perceived at the time) weakness of character for letting his relationships dictate so much of his life and emotions, and made this my AIM (yikes) moniker and I liked the way it sounded so I kept using it for other accounts as well. Now it doesn't mean shit to me other than the syllables, and I hope I haven't come off as arrogant or having some juvenile personal philosophy to some people because of it. I never really pay attention to usernames other than to just accept them without any deeper meaning, thinking they're always just some neologism like mine.
I was listening to a lot of No Age at the time I found Hubski, and I thought the song name Brain Burner was pretty cool, so I decided to use it. I have no regrets.
Kafei + Sasuke = Kafke That's about as interesting as it gets. Two favorite characters when I was 13. I don't really like Naruto anymore, so I suppose my username needs an update. It's not based on Kefka or Kafka. Lol, you should've seen my earlier usernames. They sucked. Kafke seems to be weird enough to be free in most sites, short enough to look nice, and it has a nice variety of letters. I don't like how people pronounce it wrong though. That bothers me. And the fact I don't like half the characters that make it up. I have the gamertag Toasty_Kotatsu on Xbox. But I don't think I'm gonna stick with that. I'm mostly using this stupid name because i've used it forever :P If you do a google search for "kafke" you'll probably come up with me 99% of the time.
I've changed pseudonyms many times over the years as I moved from community to community but I always had some vaguely techy/nerdy name because why not. Back when Dave Chalk had his computer show I used thinkpad because I really wanted one (I think I was 10 or so at the time).